Debian install an 'borrowed' PC for trial
After reading several of the digests I was getting nervous of the install
disks I had made using rawrite2 in a DOS window on a WindowsNT( Yes, I CAN
hear you all cringe), I 'borrowed' an old PC here at work, put in a
pentium, 16M of Ram, and loaded Debian Linux. Surprise, surprise,
surprise... It worked first time from the first set of disks!!!(I made 4
copies, just in case) Now my current problem, This PC doesn't have a CD, My
boss won't let me connect this system to the NET( we use WindowsNT servers,
no one knows how to use Linux/Unix around here) and I only have the Base
installation. I need a way to download various packages with an NT machine
to floppy so I can load them into the new Linux box. I often have a few
hours here and there I can spend copying files. I need gcc, one of the good
word processors( similar to WordPerfect or M$ Word) and xcopilot to start.
Any assistance in this madness will be greatly appreciated so I can get
started learning Linux/Unix. I still want to set-up my home PC with Linux
and WindowsNT when I buy it ;->. Thanks for all your help. The set-up I
want for that system is; NT bootloader to select from WindowsNT or Linux
with a separate partition for Windows and several partitions for Linux;
Root ( just enough for a good package), Swap (128M), and any separate
partitions that would be recommended to protect my system from any bad
programmes I may write ;->.
Cheers,
John Gay
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